Ideas for BBQ side dishes

[SpicyMargFTW]

Looking for some ideas for sides to go with a BBQ.

Currently on the list:

• corn ribs
• potatoes (from the garden, boiled then covered in oil and finished on the BBQ)
• homemade coleslaw
• basil pasta
• spicy broccoli salad

Often do wedges and garlic bread but want to stay away from those, on this occasion. Also love a Greek salad but it takes me forever to make (and I tend to hog it 🤣).

A Bill Granger salad I have every year at Christmas because it’s hot here.

Cubed pumpkin dredged in olive oil with a spice blend - cumin, cayenne, nutmeg (ras al hanout or something). You need good flavour. Into the oven until cooked.

Then fold with black olives, salad onion, Greek feta, nuts (pine, pecans or walnut), perhaps a tin of cannellini beans.

Serve over salad leaves.

Or you can do layers. Leaves first. Then pumpkin. Olives, onion, feta, nuts.

😲 that sounds amazing!!!

Sweetheart cabbage spritzed with a little oil (spray kind) bbq really well then finish with lemon juice

It really is. And I’m not, ahem, shy, with the cayenne.

Oh, I forgot to say pour over some vinaigrette, too.

My go to is halloumi salad - fried in cubes - with halved red grapes, peeled cucumber cut in chunks and some mint. You can bulk it out with some leaves if you like.

Tabbouleh
potato salad